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Utah-based Hispanic activist Tony Yapias has drawn a fairly high level of national attention during the past six years.

Most recently, Yapias’s name came up in coverage of a clash between “protesters” and supporters of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in Salt Lake City in March. A search on his full name at the New York Timesreturns eight in-house items between 2010 and 2014. He has been variously described as “director of an immigration advocacy group,” “a longtime Latino leader in Utah,” and as “an activist with political interests.” A week ago, Mr. Yapias picked up another tag: accused rapist. I haven’t been able to locate any nationally distributed establishment media coverage of Yapias’s arrest.

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